On Tuesday 12 May 2009 20:36:30 Matthew Toseland wrote:
> I will post this on the website tomorrow if there are no objections. If
anyone
> can suggest any improvements, please do so; sometimes what I write isn't
> readable by human beings!
>
> 7th May, 2009 - Another big donation!
>
> Google's Open Source team has donated US$18,000 to the Freenet Project to
> support the ongoing development of the Freenet software (thanks again
> Google!).
>
> Their last donation funded the db4o project, which has now been merged into
> Freenet, greatly improving performance for large download queues while
> reducing memory usage, amongst other benefits.
>
> We are currently working on Freenet 0.8, which will be released later this
> year, and will include additional performance improvements, usability work,
> and security improvements, as well as the usual debugging. Features are not
> yet finalized but we expect it to include Freetalk (a new anonymous web
> forums tool), a new Vista-compatible installer for Windows (that part will
be
> out in a few days), and hopefully Bloom filter sharing, a new feature
> enabling nodes to know what is in their peers' datastores, greatly improving
> performance, combined with some related security improvements.
>
I have posted the announcement.
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